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Re: Variable fonts
I do. The basic desktop license for my Proxima Nova (48 styles) is $744. For the variable version, Proxima Vara, the price is $99. Rather than try to fit the variable version into static font pricing…6 -
Re: Some interesting magazine typography from 1988 .
Not everyone had switched over to desktop publishing yet in 1988. It was still mostly a low-end phenomenon, not quite mainstream yet, especially for professional publishing. The number of professiona…4 -
Re: Applications without OpenType feature support
Most, if not all, video editing and motion graphics apps lack OpenType support. Adobe After Effects has limited support. For example, if you set some text containing alternate characters in Illustrat…7 -
Re: Some interesting magazine typography from 1988 .
The RA and LA ligatures as seen in these settings existed in the original fonts.5 -
Re: My text face wish list
I like the way upright parentheses and other delimiters look with italic text, too, but it does seem the convention to slant them has existed for a long time. Looking at the 1941 ATF catalog, most ty…4
